L'artista della sparizione
by:
Anna Nadotti (author)
Anita Desai (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788806209124 (8806209124)
Publish date: April 2013
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 160
Edition language: Italian
The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of three very different yet very similar novellas.The first, The Museum of Final Journeys, narrates a story of a Civil Service Officer who started his career from a post in a remote district of the country. It was perhaps not the most glamorous post that o...
3 novellas--linked I suppose by the recurrence of small but substantive moments of moral decision, a common question of how (and why, and whether) art matters in one's life, and Desai's precisely-detailed prose and characterization. One of these knocked me down: as Prema, a middle-aged mouse of an ...